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Praxis Series

Romantic Circles
Praxis (ISSN: 1528-8129) is a series of peer-reviewed critical volumes devoted to the field of Romanticism and its theoretical underpinnings. Closer in form to a scholarly book of essays than a critical journal, each volume in Romantic Circles Praxis Series (RCPS) explores a particular subject, figure, or theoretical approach, such as the gothic, contemporary culture, discourses of empire, and many others.

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March 2001

An investigation into the
scientific thought of Romantic writers, looking at
the Romantics' conflicted attitudes
toward Enlightenment-based science, and offering
speculative explorations of their work in the
framework of more recent scientific developments.
Edited by Hugh Roberts,
essays by Arkady
Plotnitsky and R. Paul
Yoder.

January 2000

An examination of the works of
Friedrich Schelling, one of the three major figures
in the philosophical and aesthetic history of the
Romantic period, and important influence on
Coleridge. This volume looks particularly at
Schelling's writings on freedom. Edited by
David S.
Ferris, essays by Jan
Mieszkowski, David S. Ferris,
and David L.
Clark.

A debate on the question of
aesthetics and the uses of pleasure in Romanticism,
looking at the role of affective experience in
aesthetic judgment and the production of meaning, as
played out in the interior and social worlds.
Edited by Karen Weisman,
with essays and responses by Theresa Kelley and
Thomas
Pfau.

August 1997

An interview of W. J. T. Mitchell
with Orrin N. C. Wang. Includes Mitchell's
unconventional answers/narrative—his "Romantic
Education"—as well as an equally unconventional
gloss by Wang, entitled "The Sorrows of Young
Wieboldt."

Re-assesses Shelley's early
verse, showing that, far from being mere juvenilia,
it offers an aesthetics of excess and a politics of
resistance that provides access to the early Regency
culture, as well as to Shelley's art and thought
in general. Edited by Neil
Fraistat, with essays by Linda
Brigham, William Keach,
Timothy
Morton, and Donald H.
Reiman.